{"id":791368,"date":"2026-08-29T09:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/791368\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T09:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:24:15","slug":"braves-try-to-keep-home-win-streak-alive-host-the-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/791368\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves try to keep home win streak alive, host the Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado Rockies<\/a> (52-83, fifth in the NL West) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (80-55, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Atlanta; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rockies: Ryan Feltner<\/a> (5-8, 6.08 ERA, 1.54 WHIP, 70 strikeouts); Braves: Martin Perez<\/a> (8-8, 3.12 ERA, 1.21 WHIP, 85 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -219, Rockies +180; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves will try to keep a five-game home win streak alive when they play the Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n

Atlanta is 46-23 at home and 80-55 overall. The Braves have the ninth-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play at .248.<\/p>\n

Colorado has gone 25-45 on the road and 52-83 overall. The Rockies are 10th in the NL with 151 total home runs, averaging 1.1 per game.<\/p>\n

The teams square off Saturday for the fifth time this season. The Braves lead the season series 4-0.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Matt Olson<\/a> leads the Braves with 37 home runs while slugging .532. Mauricio Dubon<\/a> is 14 for 36 with a double and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Hunter Goodman<\/a> has 16 doubles, a triple and 36 home runs for the Rockies. Connor Norby<\/a> is 11 for 34 with four doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 6-4, .263 batting average, 2.83 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

Rockies: 2-8, .245 batting average, 5.93 ERA, outscored by 21 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: Spencer Strider: 60-Day IL (elbow), Robert Suarez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Reynaldo Lopez: 15-Day IL (knee), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Rockies: Kyle Freeland<\/a>: 15-Day IL (neck), Kyle Karros<\/a>: 7-Day IL (concussion), Sean Sullivan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (undisclosed), McCade Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jose Quintana: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kris Bryant: 60-Day IL (back), Welinton Herrera<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Chase Dollander: 60-Day IL (elbow), Pierson Ohl: 60-Day IL (elbow), RJ Petit: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Rockies (52-83, fifth in the NL West) vs. Atlanta Braves (80-55, first in the NL East) Atlanta;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[46,5,167,52,4316,9350,75686,2092,10367,1022,39318,19,370,541,3617,42377,4,80,168,1945,39325,659,56859],"class_list":["post-791368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-rockies","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coloradorockies","tag-connor-norby","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-goodman","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-kyle-freeland","tag-kyle-karros","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-martin-perez","tag-matt-olson","tag-mauricio-dubon","tag-mccade-brown","tag-mlb","tag-robert-suarez","tag-rockies","tag-ryan-feltner","tag-sean-sullivan","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-welinton-herrera"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117178077248796960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}